From: Gregg N 

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:06:18 -0800, Randall Parker wrote:

> Borland Interbase is listed as Manual in the WinXP Adminisrtrative Tools
> | Services column Startup Type.
>
> But it starts up when I boot up.
>
> What the heck? Since when does Manual not mean Manual?
>
>

"Manual" doesn't mean the service is disabled.
"Disabled" means that.

"Manual" just means Windows will not start it automatically, but
th service can still start it if something explicitly asks it to start
(such as another automatically started service that depends on it), or a
user explicitly starting it).

When a service installs itself, it declares what other services it depends
on. When the service starts, Windows starts the services it depends on
first. This is probably what is happening.

Disabled means Windows will not start it, and will return failure code to
anything that attempts to start it. That is probably what you want.

Take a look at the dependencies tab and see what other services depend on
this one. Probably one of them is set to start automatically.

Gregg

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